Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:17:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jails, loopback interfaces and sendmail Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906041717130.34191@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4A27D38B.6040108@erdgeist.org> References: <4A27D38B.6040108@erdgeist.org>
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> However, grep -R 127.0.0.1 /etc reveals, that sendmail in many places > assumes localhost to be on 127.0.0.1 instead of looking it up in > /etc/hosts or using 127.0.0.0/8 to identify a local connection. calling 127.0.0.1 from jail always loops back within jail. it's all fine. > > I worry that more programmers made those assumptions, possibly breaking > more tools. > > My question is: Who's the right guy to beg to fix sendmail or > alternatively would it be smart to allow each jail to have its own > concept of 127.0.0.1 on a dummy interface mapped to all jails, that it already have
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